Association Between ICU-Acquired Hypernatremia and In-Hospital Mortality: Data From the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III and the Electronic ICU Collaborative Research Database.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Describe the relationship between ICU-acquired hypernatremia and in-hospital mortality and investigate the optimal hypernatremia correction rate.

Design setting participants and measurements

Observational study including two individual ICU cohorts. We used the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III v. 1.4 database consists of all ICU patients admitted to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from 2001 to 2012 (n = 46,476). The electronic ICU v. 2.0 database consists of all ICU patients admitted to 208 distinct hospitals across the United States from 2014 to 2015 (n = 200,859). We included all adult patients admitted to an ICU with two consecutive sodium samples within normal range (135-145 mmol/L) and without two consecutive hyp

SUBMITTER: Olsen MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7746205 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature